America Quote by Miles Davis

So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to…

— James W. Loewen

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

— Eduardo Galeano

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

— Louise Erdrich

Curiosity can lead you to bigger and better things. Columbus found America by accident.

— Anonymous

Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films,…

— Wilma Mankiller

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that…

— Jon Stewart

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.”

— Pedro Domingos

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

— Oscar Wilde

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

— W. L. George

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

— Sean Connery

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

— James W. Loewen